Jeremiah 4:22

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

She kept his robe with her until Joseph's master came home.

2 Samuel 13:3

But he had a friend, a very shrewd man named Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shammah.

Psalm 36:3

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

Psalm 36:4

They make evil plans as they lie in bed; nothing they do is good, and they never reject anything evil.

Psalm 53:4

“Don't they know?” God asks. “Are these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me.”

Psalm 82:5

“How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not know what justice is, but those who worship the Lord understand it well.

Isaiah 1:3

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all.”

Isaiah 27:11

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Jeremiah 10:8

All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ My own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled against me; the prophets spoke in the name of Baal and worshiped useless idols.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle raging and hear the blasts of trumpets?

Jeremiah 5:21

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:3

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The Lord says, “My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God.”

Jeremiah 9:5

They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The Lord says that his people reject him.

Ezekiel 16:30

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.

Hosea 4:1

The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.

Hosea 4:6

My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.

Hosea 5:4

The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Amos 3:10

The Lord says, “These people fill their mansions with things taken by crime and violence. They don't even know how to be honest.

Micah 2:1

How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.

Micah 7:3

They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.

Luke 16:8

As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light.”

John 16:3

People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

Romans 1:22

They say they are wise, but they are fools;

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Romans 16:19

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel, and for this reason I am happy about you. I want you to be wise about what is good, but innocent in what is evil.

Romans 3:11

no one who is wise or who worships God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.

Deuteronomy 32:28

“Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this the way you should treat the Lord, you foolish, senseless people? He is your father, your Creator, he made you into a nation.